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Sentiment weakens as macro threats loom

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... impact of the pandemic and the risk of a second wave of infections remain the biggest risk to markets, trade tensions between China and the US, and ultimately, China and Australia, also point to further downside. "Renewed trade tensions between the US ...

Chief economist update: Border brawl

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
Forget Australia's simmering political and trade tension with China, there's one building right inside our very borders. Canberra's worried that Beijing's ban on beef imports, increased tariff on barley could extend to boycott of Australia's ...

Global dividends to fall 15%: Janus Henderson

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2020
... rather than dividend cuts are likely to bear the brunt of efforts by companies to preserve cash." The research found in China and the rest of Asia, companies have already fixed their 2020 payouts based on 2019 profits, so the impact is likely to be greater ...

Chief economist update: China's beef with Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... devastation wrought by the bushfires, the lockdown forced on society by the coronavirus and, just in, a brewing trade war with China - its biggest trading partner. China has recently banned meat imports from Australia, citing violations of quarantine ...

Chief economist update: Easing does it (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... Sunday's news wasn't. To paraphrase Mr. Murphy, anything that could go wrong went wrong. Here are the headlines: Northeast China hit by coronavirus infections, Wuhan reports new case (Reuters) "BEIJING (Reuters) -- Chinese authorities reported ...

Trust in big four improves

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
... ANZ lifted three points and CBA rose one point. However, Westpac ranked 29 th of the 31 banks, with only AMP and Bank of China lagging behind it. NAB, CBA and ANZ ranked 22 nd, 23 rd and 24 th respectively. The developer of the index, research platform ...

Emerging markets weather varied COVID-19 storms

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... "Complementing this - and on display during the virus outbreak - is the growing role that technology plays in economic activity. "China has been a leader in e-commerce and social media engagement, but we expect future innovation will emerge from more ...

Chief economist update: Will emerging markets be first to emerge?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... equity markets versus developed ones. They have lesser cases of infection and are unlocking lockdown restrictions (notably, China) earlier than their developed country counterparts. Then again, emerging market currencies remain under pressure against ...

Capital retention policies may hit investors: Research

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2020
... in Australia to be more severely impacted from COVID-19 than other developed markets. A decline in aggregate demand from China is likely to affect earnings in the materials sector, at least in the short term," Walsh pointed out. "Our modelling also shows ...

Chief economist update: No escaping the inverted yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
... relaxing restrictions. Among them: Australia, New Zealand, India, Italy, Spain, Germany, Greece, Iran and Saudi Arabia. China, of course, ended its lockdown weeks earlier (7 April). While unlocking lockdowns prematurely could prompt a resurgence in new ...